Make sure you temper your chocolate before you mold it or it will not set at room temperature. If you are using a mortar and pestle you will need to add the additional melted cocoa butter now. Warm the mixture to melt the cocoa butter in it and continue to grind. If you want them really fine like in commercial chocolate then you’ll need to buy a chocolate melanger, but they are not cheap. You can use a mortar and pestle or grind the beans as finely as you can. MILL THE BEANS Use a blender or food processor to make the beans as fine as you can. Tip them onto a bowl and gently blow with a hairdryer to remove the lighter shells. The other way you can do this is to crush the beans using a rolling pin. Gently twist the bean and then remove the shell. The easiest way to do this for small quantities is by hand. Take them out of the oven and let them cool for 5 minutes. Then close the oven door and leave the beans in there for another 12 minutes. Turn the oven back down to 122✯ (50✬) and open the oven door for a minute to let it rapidly cool down. Preheat your oven to 129✯ (54✬), put the beans in and turn the heat up to 250✯ (121✬) for 15 minutes. Spread the beans out in a single layer onto a lined baking tray. If you’re thinking about ordering some beans, then as a general rule 115g (4.06 ounces) of beans produces around 90g (3.17 ounces) of roasted, peeled cocoa nibs.Īnd even if you can’t get hold of cocoa beans, you can swap out the nibs in each recipe for half cocoa butter and half cocoa powder by weight. There’s a growing list of bean to bar chocolate makers here. If you want to make your own chocolate then you can also contact a bean to bar chocolate maker to source a small quantity of cocoa beans and cocoa butter. Bean to bar chocolate makers use different beans from all over the world to help independent growers and to bring those flavours to you. However it’s likely that most of the chocolate you’ve ever tasted will have come from only one variety. Just as there are many different flavours of coffee as a result of the beans used, there are also loads of variations with cocoa beans. The best part is that you can control just how much sugar to add as well as any extra ingredients. Follow the video to see how you can make your very own chocolate at home. Bean to bar chocolate is taking the world by storm.